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harlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in what the governor called a political assassination carried out from a rooftop.

Following a week of protests against federal immigration raids, approximately 200 Marines arrived in Los Angeles on Friday to secure a federal building in the city. Meanwhile, communities nationwide are preparing for an expected wave of large-scale demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s policies this weekend.

Prosecutors claim that Combs employed violence, threats, and a network of employees and associates to dominate and mistreat women for twenty years. His attorneys have informed the jury in Manhattan's federal court that, despite instances of domestic violence in his relationships, all sexual activities were consensual.

Tensions in Los Angeles heightened on Sunday as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump’s unusual deployment of the National Guard. They blocked a major freeway and set self-driving cars ablaze, while law enforcement used tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash bangs to manage the crowd.

This is not the first instance where Trump has activated the National Guard to manage protests. In 2020, he requested governors from multiple states to send troops to Washington, D.C., in response to protests following George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. Many governors complied, dispatching troops to the capital, while those who declined were allowed to keep their forces within their states.

Trump's directive followed incidents in Paramount and nearby Compton, where a vehicle was set ablaze. Demonstrations continued into the night in Paramount, with several hundred protesters assembling near a doughnut shop, while authorities used barbed wire to maintain distance from the crowd.

A former top aide to Sean “Diddy” Combs testified on Tuesday that the hip-hop mogul threatened her life on her first day at work and later brandished a gun while kidnapping her in a furious attempt to find and kill rapper Kid Cudi.

Federal regulators reported on Tuesday that the severe shortage of overnight parking for long-haul truckers at interstate rest stops significantly contributed to a 2023 Greyhound bus accident in Illinois that resulted in three fatalities.